Improvement in coffins



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP E. OBER, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COFFINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,006, dated January 21, 1873.

or clay baked in a kiln.

It consists of an elongated pyramidal case or box, A, provided with a cover, B, and having two or more ledges, G 0, extended across it transversely and upward from its bottom, each being channeled lengthwise and through the bottom, in manner as shown at D D. The

channels D D are to receive the ropes nsedin lowering the sarcophagus into a grave or pit, and to enable such ropes to be subsequently drawn away from the sarcophagus. The ledges O O are to constitute supports for the coflin to rest upon, and also to form spaces above the bottom of the sarcophagus toiadmit of the withdrawal of the ropes used in lowering the coffin into the sarcophagus.

The coffin body or box A may be made in two or more sections, if desirable.

I claim The sarcophagus made with the ledges O G and. channels D D arranged in it, and with 7 reference to each other and its bottom in manher as explained and shown.

PHILIP OBER.

WVitnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

